276 Antediluvian Zoology and Botany. 
only one species, somewhat similar, but of great rarity was 
known to him in a recent state. * Since this great work 
appeared, the natural history of the Crindidea, or lily-shaped 
animals, comprising those formerly described as Encrinites 
and Pentacrinites, has been investigated with extraordinary 
perseverance and success by Mr. Miller. This family he sub- 
divides into 9 genera and 25 species. The Encrinites are 
coeval with the earliest of the secondary rocks. (fig. 69.) 
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moniliformis of Miller; Encr. liliférmis of Lamarck, 
Mr. Parkinson has shown that the lily encrinite was com- 
posed of nearly 30,000 distinct bones. 
Pentacrinites may be traced through the beds of the lias, 
oolites, and chalk. Four of this family are found in the latter, 
with the genus Marsupite. In the lias of Dorsetshire they are 
said to occur frequently, adhering to wood. (fig. 70.) 
Echinide, or Echinites. —Advancing in the scale of organis- 
ation, we have next to speak of a class of animals covered 
with a bony crust, and furnished with movable spines. This 
family is so numerous, that several naturalists, from Linnzeus 
to Lamarck, have successively employed themselves to esta- 
blish a lucid form cf arrangement. Mr. Parkinson, in the 
* This Pentacrinite was found on the coast of Barbadoes. A recent Eu- 
ropean Pentacrinite has since been d'scovered, which we have already figured 
in Vol. II. p. 114. of this Magazine. 
